Prior to taking up his post as Abha Club's new head coach, Pitso Mosimane has explained his visit to the South African Football Association (SAFA) who have tapped into his well of knowledge.
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Mosimane has been on a short break since October last year after vacating his role as Al Wahda head coach.
He has decided to return to the dugout in Saudi Arabia, where he has been tasked with rescuing Abha Club from relegation, with the entire second half of the season still to play – a daunting, yet achievable task for the 59-year-old.
Mosimane did return to his former stomping ground at SAFA, although it was as per the invitation of the Association's Technical Director Walter Steenbok.
In the visit, Mosimane outlined a number of factors that needs to be aligned within the national teams, and how he could possibly influence it.
"So, the TD technical director Walter Steenbok invited me over to share my way of thinking and how can we influence the way the national team plays. It's not the way I want to play. It's how the national team wants to play. So, I was just presenting ways where everybody plays a lot of teams, plays and how they play and I was presenting my way, meaning my own way of how I use my 4-4-2 [system] or a 4-3-3, sometimes [which is] very rare. And we all call 4-4-2 or 4-3-3," he told SAFA's media department.
"So, what we are addressing today is the base of our foundation that needs to be filtered through to the junior national teams, how we're going to do it and how we do this. So that when we scout, with scouting players for positions like this and the position like this position like this. So, I was just showing them different ways of moving.
"So, this is what I was addressing to the coaches, to say, let's try and have the best team on the pitch. Let's stick and respect the principles of the philosophy of the federation. But be able to allow players freedom of movement, especially when they can create problems for the opponents, for us to score," he concluded.
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